"Your life doesn't have to be around measuring everything you eat and obsessing over it," she said, as noted by Dr. Oz’s The Good Life.

Therefore, she’s come up with a simple, inexpensive trick to minimize these cravings. Just buy a pack of mint gum.

"I almost always have mint gum in my mouth,” she explained. "You have to take it out to have a bite of junk food, and it's a pain. Mint gum also ruins the flavor of most things. If I do take it out, nothing is going to taste good anyway."

If you don’t want to chew gum, she suggested using Listerine PocketPads instead.

"Those sheets will ruin your taste buds in a second," Oprea explained. "After having one in your mouth, everything tastes disgusting. It's like using mouthwash before you eat something."